Travel

Travel is so much fun! In my eyes, travel is the best in situ learning laboratory! I am very lucky that I have had some opportunities to travel to different places of the world. These travel adventures are wonderful experiences that have enriched me and broadened my perspectives immensely. Shared below are a few of my favorite quotes about travel. I hope you find them inspirational as well. Below these quotes are some photos from some of my recent travels: the 2016 Galapagos and Ecuador, the 2017 Ghana and Nicaragua, the 2018 Summer Study Abroad to China. More travels will take place once COVID-19 is subsided.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. – Saint Augustine
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert
Life is either a darling adventure or nothing. — Helen Keller
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch
Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. – Matthew Karsten

Borobudur, Yogyakarta, Indonesia – UNESCO Buddhist temple

Borobudur, Yogyakarta – UNESCO Buddhist Temple

Kopi luwak – most expensive coffee by the Asian civet

Gardens by the Bay, SIngapore

Galapagos Land Iguana

Lava Tunnel, Galapagos Islands

The Galapagos giant tortoise, Santa Cruz, Galapagos

The Galapagos giant tortoise eating guava fruit

Daphne Major, a volcanic island north of Santa Cruz Island

Marine Iguana, Galapagos Islands

Marine Iguana family, Galapagos

Amazon River’s headwater near Quito, Peru

Indigenous tribe’s Shaman of the Ecuador’s Amazon River

Blue-footed boobies, on rocky coasts of Galapagos

The Basilica of the National Vow, a Roman Catholic church in the historic center of Quito, Ecuador

Florida Coast near Key Largo

Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterrey, CA

Kicker Rock, Santa Cruz of the Galapagos

San Francisco, April, 2015

Kicker Rock, Galapogos, June, 2016

Great Wall, Beijing, China, June, 2014

Selva Negra, Nicaragua, June, 2017